a Traveller on the Glacier ofBuet. ill 



came on, the weather was cold, and the travellers were wet. 

 They were obliged, therefore, to return to the Chalets de 

 Villy, where they arrived about ten at night. 



" Having confulted together, they refolved to return to the 

 glacier, after fupplying themfelves with fome pieces of wood 

 and fome more ropes. They fet out from Villy at break of 

 day, and on reaching the mouth of the fiflure they con- 

 ltructed a kind of apparatus, by means of which Deville the 

 father was let down; but he was ftopped by the narrownefs of 

 the fiflure, the fame obftacle which had ftopped his fon. He 

 had carried down with him a fhort-handled hatchet, by 

 means of which lie endeavoured to enlarge the paflage to- 

 wards the place where the body lay, in order that it might 

 not be covered by the fragments of the ice. He descended 

 gradually towards it, and endeavoured, but in vain, to move 

 it, as it was fo ftrongly wedged in between the fides of the 

 pit. He then endeavoured to cut the ice around it, and at 

 laft difengaged the upper part of the body in Inch a manner 

 as to be able to faften a rope round it below the arms. The 

 body was in an cre& pofition, the arms raifed up to the 

 head, and the face turned towards the left moulder. It was 

 quite frozen. 



ee Deville then called out to the afliftants to pull the rope, 

 in order to try whether it was poffible to raife the body, but 

 the attempt was fruitlefs. He then continued to clear away 

 the ice around, which he at length accomplifhed, after three 

 hours labour with his hatchet. When this was completed, 

 he firft caufed himfelf to be drawn up, and then the body; 

 by this time it was five in the evening. 



" Search was then made in the pockets of the deceafed, in 

 order to find out and collecl; all his property, and an in- 

 ventory of them was fubjoined to the* prefent minutes. A 

 Hedge was made with fome pieces of wood, and in this 

 manner the body was conveyed beyond the glacier. The 

 brothers Deville then carried it on their flioulders, in turns, 

 as far as the Chalets de Villy, where they arrived at ten in 

 the evening. It was then placed on a mule, and, after reft- 

 ing an hour, they again let out, and arrived at Servoz be- 

 tweco five and fix in the morning. Bernard, Deville's 

 4 yonngeft 



